Das lebendige museum (Britta Lauer en Renate Heidt Heller)

Das lebendige museum (Britta Lauer en Renate Heidt Heller)

Duitstalige catalogus bij de expositie ‘Das Lebendige Museum’ die van 23.08.1997 tot 26.10.1997 Oktober 1997 in het Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg werd gehouden.

Britta Lauer is an established contemporary visual artist. Britta Lauer was born in 1945. Artists Lucette Dalozzo, Guo Shifu, Manuel Alvarez Losada, Yves Aubry, and Milan Hes are of the same generation.

Born in 1945, Britta Lauer was largely influenced by the 1960s. The astronomical impact of the 1960s was truly sensational across the globe. Representative of a time stirring both faith and anger, the 1960s triggered an outburst of cutting-edge ideologies and movements, truly sensational and spectacular. Historically set in the context of the Cold War, which would have a highly influential impact globally, mainly defined by the Iron Curtain separating Europe both physically and spiritually, and significantly marked by the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

The 1960s re-defined all pre-existing expectations on gender, race and justice, questioned education as well as morality and selfhood – for instance through the civil rights movement and second wave of feminism, as well as student political uprisings. The incredible boom of mass consumerism also defined the era, generating new trends in marketing and advertising. Minimalism established the central idea that art should exist in its own reality, and not try to represent the physical world. Born of a desire to obliterate allpre-established conceptions about art, Minimalism turned into a radically progressive movement, highly influential worldwide, with artists such as Frank Stella, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin as key actors.

Minimalism became influential through the works of artists such as Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley, while Pop art was an essential by-product of the latter, at the same time critiquing and glorifying popular culture. The iconic contemporary art movements that echoed through the wave of radicalism of the 1960s also had their own distinctions and scopes, distinctive to different areas or countries.Spatialism, for example, was established in Italy by Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, and its ideologies embraced by the Zero group in Germany. Throughout Europe, the philosophy of Existentialism deeply influenced artists like Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, who sought to depict the raw human emotions often connected to reflections on death and the lingering anxiety of theme aninglessness of life.

Paperback, 107 pag., geïllustreerd

Uitg. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, 1997

ISBN 3892795347

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